OS Roundtable: If You Could Add One Feature To Madden...

[m-dogg]

Online co-op connected career. 2 players connected over online, playing on the SAME team as player lock players.

basically OTP in a career mode, with playoffs, drafting etc.

[TMJOHNS18]

Progression system similar to The Show's, or at least NBA 2k.

Hate the XP based system. I want JeMarcus Russell's and Ryan Leaf's. I want bust that you scout and fall in love with only to be disappointed. With the XP system you can take any player with the physical tools and make him an all-time great. Players that are dumb as rocks and have no technical skills can become elite at their positions after a year of practices.

See that 60 ovr 6'2'' 98 spd corner? Sure he has no ability to cover and plays like a blind bat, but year and a half later he'll be a top flight corner without ever playing a down in an NFL game. Guess his first 3 years in the NFL didn't mean anything, but 2 years on my practice squad has changed his life for good.



2nd option would be revamped scouting system. Grades are OK, A/B/C/etc., but leave that to my scouts. Let me hire scouts and let them do the work for me. Look at NBA 2k's system here. Scouts give feedback on players, give me comparison's to other NBA players, and give me a rough estimate of their ability (depending on level of scout).

Wait, NFL HC09 had this, so.... it's there EA, added it in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !

[Aggies7]

I like the idea about Madden adding a 2K type My Player mode. I won't get my hopes up though considering stuff such as presentation and other feature 2K offers has been requested and yet it never happens.

One thing I would like to add is tips passes in the secondary and CBs that can dive to make the pick.

[Jerros]

There are tons of things I would add to Madden but I will keep it simple since there are plenty of folks addressing gameplay. One feature I would like to see is multiple announcers. 6 pairs of announcers. Three pairs for AFC games and Three pairs for NFC games. How about that for spicing up presentation. Phil Sims and Jim Nance can't be at EVERY game. How about some variety to make the games feel more fluid? 6 announcing teams to start. Even 4 would be great. Give us something. That would be some true innovation presentation wise. And don't say it can't be done. EA evidently has money to burn being the monopoly it is. Just pay the guys. We need something fresh since Madden is all we have right now.

[Aggies7]

Quote: Originally Posted by Jerros

There are tons of things I would add to Madden but I will keep it simple since there are plenty of folks addressing gameplay. One feature I would like to see is multiple announcers. 6 pairs of announcers. Three pairs for AFC games and Three pairs for NFC games. How about that for spicing up presentation. Phil Sims and Jim Nance can't be at EVERY game. How about some variety to make the games feel more fluid? 6 announcing teams to start. Even 4 would be great. Give us something. That would be some true innovation presentation wise. And don't say it can't be done. EA evidently has money to burn being the monopoly it is. Just pay the guys. We need something fresh since Madden is all we have right now.

Love the idea for multiple announce teams but I don't see them going as high as 4. I'd be happy with 2 announce teams and have then picked just like how FOX and CBS split NFC and AFC games. The. Have them alternate Super Bowls.

Don't get me wrong, I would love to see your wish come true with that amount but at this point I would take 2.

[BadAssHskr]

college football '15 mode.

[ForUntoOblivionSoar∞]

Quote: Originally Posted by MMChrisS

With next year's Madden game in development, it's never too early to start expressing what we'd like to see the future of the franchise contain feature-wise. With that in mind, we asked the staff what one feature they'd like to see the Madden team implement into the game for not only this year, but for future editions to come. Predictably, everyone has their own idea for what they'd like to see. Be sure to read our ideas and add your own. Read More - OS Roundtable: If You Could Add One Feature To Madden...

The ability to change official NFL uniforms. By that I mean, keep the 49ers logo, but give them red pants, and different (user made) jerseys.

Why? Because in 2025 in your franchise, it is highly unlikely that every team will have the same uniform, but it is more likely that they will still have SIMILAR but UPDATED uniforms.


/lame, yes.



If not that (because of copyright b.s.), then an actual scouting combine, and a completely overhauled scouting system that is less a point-guessing game and more of an actual scouting exercise, where scouting combine measurements mean much, much more. I don't want to see "99 speed." I want to see "ran 40 yard dash in 4.3 seconds." (and watch that player run that time)

[Rebel10]

I don't think that the question really matters, because there is just so much wrong with the game, and so many "little" things, and then also some pretty enormous problems as well...

But, let's pretend that there is one feature/thing that could be added and added just as you'd like it... as impossible as it would be or as unlikely:

Realistic passing play. I am tired of going 23 / 27 and having 3 of those incompletions be interceptions, and the only other incompletion be a dropped pass. Quarterback play is, especially today, the fundamentally recognizable aspect of the sport of American football. I'd like to see a world where Tom Brady can throw for 65% and still have a good game, instead of throwing for 87% and being guaranteed that the handful of non-completions to wide receivers were either INTs or drops. Balls hitting the ground, balls being batted down, contested non-receptions. Madden 25 on nextgen is probably the worst Madden when it comes to this, at least as far back as, say, Madden '01 on PS2.

If there is one feature that I think they could achieve:

Stable, locked 60 frames per second. They'd get a lot of praise for doing this, as well.